Petra Bueskens

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Dr Petra Bueskens is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, a psychotherapist in private practice and a freelance opinion writer. Her books include Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities (Routledge 2018) and the edited volumes Mothering and Psychoanalysis (Demeter, 2014) and Australian Mothering: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (Palgrave, 2020).

Although the ideology of identity politics remains hegemonic in the academy and in many social institutions, a growing—and arguably necessary—body of critique has been emerging. These critiques have emanated both…